Fans who spent eight seasons enthralled by the power struggles of HBO's Game of Thrones will soon have an opportunity to own a piece of their favorite show.
In October, Heritage Auctions will host a massive sale featuring over 2,000 items from the 59-time Emmy winning series, spread across 900 lots.
Starting bids for each item range from $500 to as much as $20,000.
From the instantly recognizable Iron Throne to Jon Snow's legendary sword, some items could go for six-figure sums, five years on from the show's controversial conclusion.
Other highlights include Jaime Lannister's full suit of armor, Daenerys Targaryen's dragon-accented costumes, and even the infamous bell used during Cersei Lannister's walk of shame.
The auction is set to surpass expectations set by recent sales featuring the millenium's most critically-acclaimed projects.
In 2018, Breaking Bad fans bid almost $1 million for 337 items from the show, and earlier this year costumes and props from The Crown tripled their presale estimates, amassing $2.1 million.
Jay Roewe, HBO's senior vice president of global incentives and production planning, described the auction as a chance for fans to "grab a piece of history."
"Game of Thrones was a zeitgeist moment in our culture. It was a zeitgeist moment in high-end television. It was a zeitgeist moment in terms of HBO," he said in a statement.
"This is something we all grew up with. It's impacted every single one of our lives. It's impacted the culture, and Game of Thrones has meant something to every single person."
Although the series started in 2011 and several items in the auction date back to then, they have not been "collecting dust," Roewe said.
HBO had been preserving thousands of props, costumes, and set pieces, unsure which items might be needed for potential spinoffs or sequels.
With House of the Dragon having recently completed its second season and other projects in various stages of development, the flagship channel now feels confident in parting with these treasures.
"These items have been curated and taken care of since we finished filming," Roewe explained.
"They are in the same quality as when we wrapped the show, and now it's time to finally share them with the world."
Organizing such a large-scale auction has required months of planning between the TV network and its partner auctioneer.
Joe Maddalena, executive vice president of Heritage Auctions, stressed the rarity of an auction of this kind.
"You don't usually get studio-sanctioned auctions like this," he said.
"Everything comes from the archive. Everything was hand-picked, scene specific. You know where your piece was used. You know it was actually used on screen."
The auction house previously worked with HBO back in 2020 during an Entertainment & Music Memorabilia event on a much smaller scale.
Over 40 pieces of the show's concept art, from sketches to oil paintings, provided animation fanatics with the "holy grail" of lead storyboard artist William Simpson's early work
Preliminary bidding for the props is already underway, with the main auction set to take place from Oct. 10-12 at Heritage Auctions in Dallas.
Fans can preview the collection at the auction house's New York and London locations from Sept. 17 through October 4.
This article includes reporting from The Associated Press
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